Trees of the average sizes from family bean (Leguminosae). Total more than 200 versions. Reach heights no more than 20 metres, diameter of a trunk - 40 - 50 centimetres. Grow mainly in equatorial Africa and the South America. The native land kassii - Southern and South East Asia (Thailand, Burma, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam).
Colour of mature wood - from dark yellow and yellowy-brown to olive and darkly - brown. On a cut exits of a time (channels) in the form of small black points and hyphens are appreciable. The structure large, rovnovoloknistaya, wood is very decorative.
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Trees of the average sizes from family of the bean
Inflated dreveseny
wood Swelling - ability to increase in the sizes at saturation by a moisture. Early wood (English - early wood) - a part of a year ring which is formed in an early stage of the period of growth. Less dense and more light, than late wood. Svilevatost' - a wavy, chaotic arrangement of fibres of wood.
Core (English - pith) - the narrow central part of a trunk consisting of a friable (soft) fabric, characterised brown or more light, than at surrounding wood, colour.
Serdcevinnyi a beam (English - ray) - lentopodobnoe formation from the cages, directed radially in relation to growth layers.
